Zen Crib Notes

 Three months doesn't feel enough to finish off my projects. Mainly, because my group and I have to do our first one about creating innovative content (in other words, be a really good marketing team) for Kyle Books, and we are all imploding from the inside. I'm googling all the marketing analysis schemes (all the abbreviations! SWOT! PESTLE! pestle that swot) cuz it's one way for me to make sense of these projects. And then we have to think about our individual assignments, which should complement our group projects, but the one looming one is the creating digital content one, which means me fudging around the MarvelApp website to create a neat prototype for an app.

All of which, ostensibly, I can put on a CV, but like, I wish we have another month of just doing all these things over and over again. 

SO. Useful skills I'm learning and cramming in my pea sized brain:

- MarvelApp and by extension prototype app making things.
- Adobe Indesign
- Canva, for making recipe cards and graphics.
- Making SWOT graphs
- Trying and flailing over Nielsen Bookscan UK 
- Trying and failing to make excel graphs
- Market reports that are somehow harder than making essays. 

Also, cuz I got a shiny iPad Pro (2017) from ebay, cuz Apple shit is more expensive in the UK than in the US, I am trying and being overwhelmed by:

- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Concepts
- Udemy
- More Adobe editing shit
- a how-to-make comic books app with storyboard and drawing tools 

Btw, I'm really liking the Apple Pencil. It's really rad. And I guess I'll have to make the deal with the devil and go sign up for an Adobe subscription, those evil fools who tempt me with easily accessible tools and materials. And stock photos. 

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